Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
The Team
Morningstar's structured credit research and ratings subsidiary (MCR) is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organization (NRSRO) that has earned a reputation for innovation and excellence in the structured finance market. This group aims to increase market transparency and provides the highest quality ratings through securities research, monitoring services, data, and technology solutions.
The Role
The Team Lead will work closely with cross functional teams, QA teams and other development teams to ensure a timely and high-quality delivery. Is accountable for the delivery assigned to team. Will have to coordinate and work with the members in a global team in an Agile way. We are looking for an individual that can apply discipline, create solid software products and be accountable for deliverables.This position isbased in our Mumbai office.
Responsibilities
- Create, develop and maintain the software code base of Credit products working in an agile environment.
- Defect fixing
- Analyses and reviews system requirements. Uses requirement and other design documents to gain overall understanding of the functionality of the new or enhanced application
- Participate actively in the build phases, to aim at producing high quality deliverables
- Provide recommendations on product and development environment improvements
- Architect and develop highly scalable web applications
- Enforce good Agile practices (using JIRA) including test-driven development and continuous integration
- Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture
- Be passionate about quality, process, programming, and investing in general, seeing opportunities for improvement, seizing them, and then sharing your findings with others.
- Familiarity or desire to become an AWS certified developer/architect
Requirements:
- A minimum of 3 years experience working as a Python software developer with a total experience of 5+ years
- A Minimum 3 years of development experience in Angular or VueJS or node js is required
- A minimum 2 years of experience in cloud is required (Preferred AWS)
- Python based full stack development, using Django/Flask, FAST or other MVC frameworks experience will be a plus
- Prior programming experience with .NET, Web Development will be a big plus
- Understanding of DevOps processes is must to have
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent understanding of Source Control tools preferably Git
- Excellent understanding of Multi-threaded and Asynchronous programming
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or an engineering field; a graduate degree is strongly preferred
Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer
About Us
Morningstar DBRS is a leading provider of independent rating services and opinions for corporate and sovereign entities, financial institutions, and project and structured finance instruments globally. Rating more than 4,000 issuers and 60,000 securities, it is one of the top four credit rating agencies in the world.
Morningstar DBRS empowers investor success by bringing more transparency and a much-needed diversity of opinion in the credit rating industry. Our approach and size allow us to be nimble enough to respond to customers needs in their local markets, but large enough to provide the necessary expertise and resources they require. Market innovators choose to work with us because of our agility, tech-forward approach, and exceptional customer service.
Morningstar DBRS is the next generation of credit ratings.
If you received and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
